Q: Over the past 25 years, the number of young adults 20-34 doing this has decreased steadily. What is it?
A: Moving out of their parents’ home.
- More than one in three (34.7%) young adults aged 20 to 34 were living with at least one parent in 2016, a share that has been increasing since 2001.
- Over the same period, the share of all young adults living with their own family decreased from about one‑half, or 49.1%, in 2001 to 41.9% in 2016.
- More than two in five (42.1%) young adults in Ontario were living with their parents, by far the largest share observed in the provinces and territories. This proportion has increased by 20.3% since 2001.
- Among the 35 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in the country, Toronto (47.4%) and Oshawa (47.2%) had the largest shares of young adults living with their parents—almost one in two young adults
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